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Originally Posted by Hitch
For the benefit of anyone who comes along later, with a similar question:
What this poster did not, and still does not, understand, is that he asked a question roughly equivalent to: "How do I change the timing on my Chevy?" The question I asked back was, "are you driving a Chevy VOLT or a Chevy Corvette," because the two cars (books) are quite different, and the answer is quite different. I wasn't "grandstanding." It would have been quite simple to add a sans serif font to the Corvette; but it couldn't be done for the Chevy. I asked a simple question, so that I could give this person a competent answer. I wasn't attempting to belittle him; yes, I finally got impatient after my third request for an answer from him as to whether he was making a mobi 7 or a mobi8.
The answer he finally got was, "no, you can't make a sans serif font," because everyone finally decided that if he was using Guido Henkel's guidelines and Calibre, he was likely making a less-advanced book, so they simply said, "it can't be done." That's actually not the correct answer; the correct answer is, "if it's mobi8, aka KF8, it can be done, but you have to embed the fonts for it to work, not just make a stylesheet call.
And to "writerone:" Not sure how you think I was seeking ways to "knock you down." I asked you, politely, three times, what TYPE of book you were making. You posted an aggravated initial post about how mobi "should" do what you told it in the stylesheet, and I asked you then what type of book you were making. I asked you two more times. Did I eventually become exasperated, when you continued to refuse to tell me what I needed to know in order to answer the question? YES, I did. Otherwise, you apparently think I should have put in all the time to type all the possible responses here, for all the possible Kindle book types, with all the code, just in CASE you were making a KF8 book, as well. Why do you think you're entitled to suck up my (or anyone else's) time because you don't know the answer to "which?"
I assume now you created a Chevy Volt or a Malibu, and I'm glad you're happy with your book. I'm sorry I wasted my time attempting to help you. You're lashing out at me simply because you were embarrassed that you didn't know the answer, and now you're embarrassed that you've realized that the Amazon specs ARE the only specs--not some mystical "Calibre" specs. If you'd asked, or given anyone here any additional information, someone would have gladly helped you with the answer (as to what type of book you were making). As you didn't, you got the simplest, and fastest, answer: no.
Hitch
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Man, you've got some serious anger issues. And now you're wasting everyone else's time as well as mine. Please stop. You DID indeed get exasperated at me, and if you think that's ever justified, you're wrong. No one deserves that kind of behavior in any situation. I was not beholden to help you understand what I was asking for, and if we are speaking different languages, because you have no knowledge of the MOBI interface in Calibre, that's not something to get angry with me about. I could have gotten exasperated at you for continuing to harangue me with questions that did not pertain in the least to my issue - continuing to tell me over and over that KDP doesn't take Calibre, though you should already have figured out that I had no intention of using KDP. There was no way for me to answer your questions about MOBI 7 or MOBI 8, because those are not the terms I have come up against in my working with Calibre. If you insist on labeling me as stupid because I couldn't answer your undecipherable question, that says much more about you than it does about me.
And now, you have insulted both me and Guido numerous times, due to your own lack of perceptiveness, knowledge, understanding, and patience, and in so doing, simply made yourself look like a complete jackass. LET IT GO. You'll live longer.
WriterKIT